Epidemic in Denmark, October to December, 2023

Overview

Journal Euro Surveill

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2024 Jan 12

PMID 38214084

Authors

Anne Christine Nordholm

Bolette Soborg

Pikka Jokelainen

Karina Lauenborg Moller

Lotte Flink Sorensen

Tyra Grove Krause

Soren Anker Uldum

Hanne-Dorthe Emborg

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Abstract

We report a surge of patients, especially children and adolescents, with respiratory disease caused by in Denmark since October 2023. While the surge has reached an epidemic level, no impact on hospital capacity has been observed; only 14% (446/3,195) of cases, primarily adults, required hospitalisation. Macrolide resistance was detected in less than 2% of samples tested. Timely monitoring of hospitalisations linked to infections has been established to inform the healthcare system, decisionmakers and the public.

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